The Brussels Court of First Instance has sentenced an official in the European Commission for an anti-Semitic hate crime. In July 2015, the official physically assaulted another guest at a coffee bar in the EU quarters in Brussels and insulted her verbally in the belief that she was Jewish.

Kate Winter of Northumbria University has been awarded the €150,000 Baillet Latour Antarctica Fellowship for her proposal “BioFe in Glacial Systems”. She will conduct research at Princess Elisabeth Antarctica Research Station.